now we're ready to insert a new slide my
next slide is about the goal of the
workshop and I have a picture I'd like
to include I'll just click on this slide
command and although several of these
layouts will work I think I'll just
click this to content option and try it
I've copied my text from another
document so I'll just paste it here and
one of the placeholders this looks okay
but I think I'd like to try another
layout to do this just make sure the
slide you want to change is selected in
the slide pane and click the layout
command a menu appears with your options
they are the exact same layout options
that you see when you insert a new slide
the layout command just changes the
layout of an existing slide here
I think this content with caption layout
will work so just click it to select it
and you can see how the Speight layout
changes now I'll just type in goal and
the small title placeholder and I think
this will work just fine so you can see
how the layout command lets you change
the way the placeholders are arranged on
the slide and how your information looks
in the presentation you can see this
really clearly if you select your first
slide and change its layout now click
the layout command and you can see the
title slide layout is selected if you
change that to title and content or to
section heading you can easily see how
layouts work let's go back to our
original layout I think it looks the
best there may be times when you want to
copy delete or move a slide to copy a
slide just select it in the slide
pane click the copy command on the Home
tab then click inside the pain wherever
you want the copy of the slide to appear
you'll see a horizontal insertion point
up here now just click the paste command
on the Home tab and the copied slide
will appear you can see we have a new
slide for that looks just like slide 2
as with most Microsoft software there
are several ways you can do tasks you
can use the keyboard shortcut ctrl + C
to copy the slide and ctrl + V to paste
it if you want to delete a slide all you
need to do is select it in the pane on
the left if you are in normal view and
then click the deletes command on the
Home tab if you prefer to use your
keyboard you can just click the Delete
key on the key in addition to copying
and deleting slides you may need to move
them for example I decided I want my
gold slide to appear after my title
slide to move a slide just select the
one you want to move left click and drag
the slide to where you want it to appear
you'll see the insertion point appear
and then you can release the mouse
button you can see now that my gold
slide appears after my title slide see
that wasn't difficult to do I showed you
how to copy delete and move slides
around while we were in normal view but
you can do this when you were in slide
sorter view also in the bottom right
corner you have your page layout
commands normal is the default view and
where you will create your slides in the
center and all the slides will appear on
the left in the pane vertically but
sometimes it's good to look at your
slideshow and slide sorter view to do
this just click the slide sorter icon
now your slides are presented
horizontally when you're working with
mini slides
sometimes it's good to see in this
you because you can see more slides at a
time you can copy delete and move slides
from this view also
but the insertion point is vertical not
horizontal let's go back to normal view
now we're ready to save the presentation
just click the Microsoft Office button
if we had already saved this
presentation before we would select save
from the list but since this is the
first time we are saving it and we want
to save it as something other than a
default name then we need to select save
as from the menu we have several options
for how we can save it if you're going
to use the presentation on a computer
that does not have PowerPoint 2007 you
can choose to save it as a compatible
file but we'll just save it as a 2007
PowerPoint presentation by selecting
this first option the save as dialog box
appears and we can select where on our
computer we want to save it I want it on
my desktop now I can enter a file name
I'll call it workshop and click Save and
you can see the file name has been
changed now you've really learned the
basics of starting a presentation
working with slides and saving the file
the best way to feel more comfortable
with these tasks is to practice so go
ahead give it a try